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This was not a democracy; it was a kleptocracy.
Mobutu's rule earned a reputation as one of the world's foremost examples of kleptocracy and nepotism.
Some commentators believe that this practice might give rise to a kleptocracy as a deviant mutation of a democracy if left unchecked.
Demands for a second independence from kleptocracy and political infighting in the capital grew.
The form of government in such countries is often authoritarian in nature, and may comprise a dictatorship, warlordism, or a kleptocracy.
Kleptocracy in government often vitiates prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade.
A state where bribery has become a way of life is a kleptocracy.
Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good.
A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally meaning rule by thieves.
